quaff
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Anglais [modifier]
Étymologie
- De l'irlandais, du gaélique cauch, de l'écosais quaich, queff (coupe). (information à préciser ou à vérifier)
Verbe
quaff
- Boire un cul sec, ingurgiter.
- Please ye we may contrive this afternoon, / And quaff carouses to our mistress' health (1594 — Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew i 2)
- They eat, they drink, and in communion sweet, Quaff immortality and joy… (1667 — John Milton, Paradise Lost Book V)
- Quaff, oh quaff this kind nepenthe and forget this lost Lenore! (1845 — Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven)
- Even while quaffing the third draught of the Fountain of Youth, they were almost awed by the expression of his mysterious visage. (1852 — Nathaniel Hawthorne, Dr. Heidegger's Experiment)
